Jean-Paul Sartre....oh wow.
Sartre argued that love automatically puts a person in bad faith. Even though in a absurd world it might seem that love would provide needed comfort and ease the despair engendered by absurd existence, for Sartre the price seemed much too high. Once we love and are loved, we becomes slaves to love, modifying our opinions and our actions to retain the favor of the beloved. For fear of losing the love we have becomes dependent upon, we do certain things and do not do other things. For Sartre, living an authentic existence is impossible if we much check each action against the imagined judgment of the person who fulfills our need for love. We might observe however, that just as Sartre spent some years as a member of the Communist Party, he also spent twenty years in a long-term love relationship with Simone de Beauvoir. He reminded persuaded that organizations and love relationships put a person in bad faith, but he followed the natural human tendency to ally himself with both.